Podonomics

So, I’m chatting with Julien over Google Chat when he points me to Chris Penn’s transcript about a conversation he had with a visitor to his site. You can read it in full here.

My favourite part?

When Chris suggested the visitor apply for scholarships, the person was quite confident about his grades, saying:

“Ya dude scholarships would be awesome. My grades are like wicked mint right now.”

To which Chris replied:

“I assume by that you mean good, and not minty in the sense of fresh breath.”

Okay, so if wicked mint means good, that means whenever a prospect asks me about my podcasting skills, I can say:

“My podcast strategies are wicked mint.”

Jules and Chris, thanks for the laugh and for some new street lingo to add to my vocabulary.

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If you want a legal perspective on podcasting, Colette Vogele is the person you need. Head of her own law firm based in California called Vogele & Associates, Colette advises companies on how to protect their intellectual property in the new media and technology space.

Colette is often seen speaking at events about the impact of podcasting on law (and vice versa), most recently at Podcamp West and the Podcast & Portable Media Expo. She co-authored the Podcasting Legal Guide, a much needed resource that provides advice on how to use and distribute content legally using a podcast. This guide has become the Bible to help podcast producers know what they can and can’t include in a podcast, especially if they have a simple question and require a simple response.

While her work keeps her mainly on the West coast, she recently admitted that she’s passionate about what this medium has to offer and is looking forward to be the podcasting industry’s “legal star.” Her own podcast is in the works and in the meantime, you can catch up with her podcasting thoughts on her blog.

Colette is one of my picks as a Top 10 savvy woman in podcasting in 2006.

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As I craft together music intros for podcasts, I realize more and more that you just can’t slap a voice over music and be done with it.

You have to choose the right music to fit the mood of the podcast. You have to choose the right voice. And on top of that, you have to place the voice-only track at precisely the right spot, on the right beat so that it sounds as if it’s part of the song.

Not easy.

Typically, the voice intro is done without the music. At least that’s been my experience and I prefer it this way.

The reason?

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If you’re looking for a lady who loves to report on the mashup between technology and pop culture, Amber MacArthur is just the person. Amber is busy at work at City-TV as their New Media Specialist, helping mainstream audiences learn more about Web 2.0 and all things technology through her daily segment called World Wide Web.

Amber’s face is well known in the podcasting world. Along with her day job, Amber still finds time to produce and host her own video podcasts, the very ones that helped her land a job at City-TV. Her 3 video podcasts are:

• CommandN
• net@nite with Leo Laporte on the TWIT network
• Inside Popnology, a City-TV branded podcast looking at technology trends

Because of her amazing ability to ask just the right questions, Amber can be found at many events moderating a panel or sharing her experiences as a podcaster.

Amber is one of my picks as a Top 10 savvy women in podcasting for 2006.

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A former MTV Europe VJ, Joanne Colan entered the podcasting world just 6-months ago. Having had TV experience while living in her native England, Joanne made the easy transition into video podcasting with her adorable accent and TV smarts.

Fluent in both English and French (listen to Episode 5 of Podonomics), Joanne was handpicked by Andrew Michael Baron to host the hugely successful video podcast, Rocketboom, at one of its most critical points. Not only did Joanne show that she’s not just another pretty face, but she quickly took Rocketboom beyond where it was and made it a better brand.

She’s the missing battery from the remote control and she’s my pick as one of the Top 10 savvy women in podcasting in 2006.

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I almost coughed up my coffee through my nose when I read Entrepreneur.com’s Top 10 Marketing Trends to watch in 2007. Three of the 10 trends were listed under Hot Online Trends and what were they?

• Web conferencing
• Online research
• Local search

That’s the reason why I nearly didn’t ingest my coffee the right way this morning. Web conferencing is so 1999, while I don’t believe that local search will be hot. And I can’t believe that online research is considered a hot trend for 2007. I’ve been doing online research ever since I went online in 1994, so how can this be hot?

Why didn’t podcasting make the list? Or even blogs? Or even 3-D marketing through Second Life? Am I missing something here?

Technorati: technology, Internet, Blogs, webinars, Webcasts, Word Of Mouth, Marketing Strategy

Whether she’s preparing a newsletter or polishing off an ezine, Donna Papacosta is a communications genius who knows how to help her clients use both old and new media to communicate their message.

Having hosted Episode #177 on the critically acclaimed podcast called For Immediate Release hosted by Shel Holtz & Neville Hobson, Donna continues to share her podcasting knowledge with her peers in the communications and public relations field. Not only is she called upon regularly to sit on panels and speak at events, Donna also teaches communicators how to use podcasting in their communications mix through her bootcamp and teleclasses.

Her own podcast, Trafcom News Podcast, is held as an example on how to produce a podcast that has excellent sound qualities without taking a huge bite out of your bottom line.

Donna is my pick as one of the Top 10 savvy women in podcasting in 2006.

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While Dr. King (of Martin Luther fame) encouraged people worldwide to dream for peace, Dr. Kathleen King is on a mission to help educators worldwide incorporate podcasting into their curriculum as a teaching tool.

A frequent speaker on the role podcasting plays in education, most recently at the Podcast & Portable Media Expo as well as the International Podcasting Expo, Dr. King has written a new book on the convergence between technology and education called Harnessing Innovative Technology for Higher Education (although she’s authored many other titles). She’s not finished there as a newly minted contract with her publisher will set her up to publish one title a year.

On top of that, Dr. King launched 2 services this year to help bring together educators interested in podcasting, ILearnRadio.org and BX Radio Network. Of course, she hosts a couple of podcasts, one called Adventures in Transformative Learning, the other Podcast for Teachers.

Dr. King is the area code that completes the 10-digit conference call number and she’s my pick as a Top 10 savvy woman in podcasting for 2006.

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Want to learn the ins and outs of podcasting with a female touch? Penny Haynes is just your woman. With a background in radio and television production, the move into podcasting was a natural progression for Penny. She teaches people over the Internet how to podcast to achieve success for their businesses.

Not only does she have a knack for making the complicated sound oh so simple, she’s also the producer behind the successful International Podcasting Expo (IPE). These virtual expos bring together podcasting novices and experts from around the world to learn about one thing and one thing only - podcasting.

The first one was held in January 2006 and after organizing 3 of them this year, Penny will be publishing a book on the relationship between podcasting and search engine marketing in 2007.

Not only does Penny provide podcast consulting services to businesses, she also hosts and produces a couple of her very own, including:

• BrainStorm, a business podcast
• Words for the Week, a Christian devotional podcast
• Comedy Clip of the Week, a humour podcast

Penny is the bulb that completes the scoreboard and she’s my pick as one of the top 10 savvy women in podcasting in 2006.

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The Meshcasts (Rob’s term) are up on the Mesh blog. Thanks to Uncle Seth for that wonderful song called To Be An Angel that I used in both the intro and outro.

I was having a devil of a time trying to find something that could capture the energy of Mesh and then I stumbled upon that song.

As I perused a few blogs that made mention of the Meshcasts, I couldn’t help but notice a miscegenation of the word Mesh with other Web 2.0 terms. Meshcast is just one, so let’s have fun with this.

Here are a few of mine:

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